WTF is up with the stoopid threads lately?

Evadman

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Remember when the internet could only be accessed by the really technical people? You had to dial in by taking the phone off the hook and placing it on top of the modem, or you dialed into a BBS in another state.

Or you had Gopher.

Now any idiot can get on. Welcome to AOL. Prepare to be Stupid.
 

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Lifer
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Originally posted by: Evadman
Remember when the internet could only be accessed by the really technical people? You had to dial in by taking the phone off the hook and placing it on top of the modem, or you dialed into a BBS in another state.

Or you had Gopher.

Now any idiot can get on. Welcome to AOL. Prepare to be Stupid.

Wow... you're 23 and you used one of those old modems?!
Edit: I miss the "old" days of the Internet too. :/ I'm new to AT, old to the Internet. Or something like that.
 

Evadman

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Originally posted by: mugsywwiii
Originally posted by: Evadman
Remember when the internet could only be accessed by the really technical people? You had to dial in by taking the phone off the hook and placing it on top of the modem, or you dialed into a BBS in another state.

Or you had Gopher.

Now any idiot can get on. Welcome to AOL. Prepare to be Stupid.

Wow... you're 23 and you used one of those old modems?!

300 baud connected via ribbon cable to my Heathkit. That was geeky.

<--- Still has 2 Fully functional Osborne Computers.
 

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Lifer
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Originally posted by: AmazonRasta
AOL is for n00bs? Fvck that. I'm a thirteen year veteran of AOL. Don't call me a n00b.

Why in the world have you used AOL for 13 years?
 

Evadman

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Originally posted by: mugsywwiii
Originally posted by: AmazonRasta
AOL is for n00bs? Fvck that. I'm a thirteen year veteran of AOL. Don't call me a n00b.

Why in the world have you used AOL for 13 years?

because he is a n00b.
 

RossMAN

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Originally posted by: mugsywwiii
Originally posted by: Evadman
Remember when the internet could only be accessed by the really technical people? You had to dial in by taking the phone off the hook and placing it on top of the modem, or you dialed into a BBS in another state.

Or you had Gopher.

Now any idiot can get on. Welcome to AOL. Prepare to be Stupid.

Wow... you're 23 and you used one of those old modems?!
Edit: I miss the "old" days of the Internet too. :/ I'm new to AT, old to the Internet. Or something like that.

I remember signing up for my first internet account.

It was the summer of 1994. I paid $18/mo for 300 hours a month of 2400 baud internet access.

PINE e-mail and IRC was about it until around 1996 when I got a Mac and started using NSCA Mosaic then Nutscrape 1.1
 

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Lifer
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Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: mugsywwiii
Originally posted by: Evadman
Remember when the internet could only be accessed by the really technical people? You had to dial in by taking the phone off the hook and placing it on top of the modem, or you dialed into a BBS in another state.

Or you had Gopher.

Now any idiot can get on. Welcome to AOL. Prepare to be Stupid.

Wow... you're 23 and you used one of those old modems?!
Edit: I miss the "old" days of the Internet too. :/ I'm new to AT, old to the Internet. Or something like that.

I remember signing up for my first internet account.

It was the summer of 1994. I paid $18/mo for 300 hours a month of 2400 baud internet access.

PINE e-mail and IRC was about it until around 1996 when I got a Mac and started using NSCA Mosaic then Nutscrape 1.1

:Q 14.4 kbps modems were around at that time, why were you using 2400 baud? I started around the same time... I was on a Mac with a 14.4 modem, used MacWeb and Netscape 1.1. I used it mostly for USENET back then.
 

RossMAN

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It was an old IBM XT, 13" black and orange monitor.

Ah the good 'ole days.
 

Evadman

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Originally posted by: RossMAN
I remember signing up for my first internet account.
It was the summer of 1994. I paid $18/mo for 300 hours a month of 2400 baud internet access.
PINE e-mail and IRC was about it until around 1996 when I got a Mac and started using NSCA Mosaic then Nutscrape 1.1

Ever call a different state to log into a real BBS? Ahhh, the days of Renegade BBS and PASCAL programming. Those were the good ol' days.
 

Ness

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Originally posted by: mugsywwiii
Originally posted by: Evadman
Remember when the internet could only be accessed by the really technical people? You had to dial in by taking the phone off the hook and placing it on top of the modem, or you dialed into a BBS in another state.

Or you had Gopher.

Now any idiot can get on. Welcome to AOL. Prepare to be Stupid.

Wow... you're 23 and you used one of those old modems?!
Edit: I miss the "old" days of the Internet too. :/ I'm new to AT, old to the Internet. Or something like that.


I just turned 21 and I remember using one. I learned by watching my dad and I found out how to look up pr0n. :-x
Waiting 2 minutes for a low-quality JPEG to transfer was the coolest ;)